Re: evaluating numbers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:16:47 +0900
> 
> @Eli Maybe historically but also generally speaking, is it more convenient to 
> implement characters as integers because that was the way it is done in other 
> languages like C (which plays an important part in Emacs) ?

I think for the rest of this discussion to be meaningful you should
tell what alternatives to the current representation do you have in
mind.  Otherwise, when you say "more convenient", that begs the
question "more convenient compared to what?"